As every month, we hosted the 11th PHPMad meeting in the kitchen of our office in Madrid. Ariel Ferrandini and Eduardo Gulias talked about “ANN in a Tic Tac Toe Symfony Console Application”. We saw in this session how ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks) are used for machine learning and for recommendation systems. They brought us a basic IA demo which was capable of learning how to play Tic Tac Toe and a deeper explanation about how the process works.

In addition to PHPMad, we are open to hosting other user groups meetings and talks so, if you’re interested in organising a tech or design-related event, get in touch!

As every month, we hosted the 10h PHPMad meeting in the kitchen of our central Madrid office. Jeremy Mikola talked about Async PHP with React. In this session we saw how React brings PHP up to speed with all of the necessary pieces, introducing the concept of event loops, non-blocking IO, and async programming in PHP, and exploring ways it can serve in your technology stack.

In addition to PHPMad, we are open to hosting other user groups meetings and talks so, if you’re interested in organising a tech or design-related event, get in touch!

As every month, we hosted the 8h PHPMad meeting in the kitchen of our central Madrid office. Eduardo Gulias talked about “Driving your Development in PHP”. We were focused on methodologies like TDD, DDD, BDD which can help us to drive our development. Eduardo brought us the basic concepts about them and the different frameworks / libraries which are available in PHP.

In addition to PHPMad, we are open to hosting other user groups meetings and talks so, if you’re interested in organising a tech or design-related event, get in touch!

PHP is fast, how about our code? This was the topic that Daniel Ripollés chose to speak about at the third PHPMad meetup, that took place in the kitchen of our central Madrid office. He spoke about PHP performance and gave some advice on how to make our code faster. It was great and our kitchen was packed with people! Thanks to everyone who attended and spent some time with us ;)

In addition to PHPMad, we are open to hosting other user groups meetings and talks so, if you’re interested in organizing a tech or design-related event, get in touch!

Yesterday, we had the people from PHPMad user group back in our Madrid offices to hold the 2nd monthly meetup. This time, the speaker was our backend engineer Daniel Pañeda, and he talked about his experience migrating to HipHop, the HipHop virtual machine, and the general state of the project. You can read the epic tale of the migration process at Tuenti in this post. The talk wasn’t recorded this time, but you can see the slides here and if you are interested, you can also browse our patches to HipHop in our Github account.